Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance

Customs Union

During the period from April 1 up to April 10, 2011, the Rosselkhoznadzor Territorial Administrations detected 32 violations at importation of veterinary supervised products from the third countries into the Custom Union territory.

Negotiations were held in Moscow and were devoted to activities of the corporation aimed at safety level improvement of food products of animal origin supplied to the Russian market and their compliance with standards and requirements of the Russian Law.

A wide range of issues concerning the introduction of uniform veterinary certificates for supplies of products under state veterinary surveillance into the Customs Union countries was discussed in the course of the meeting.

The negotiations took place in Moscow. Nikolay Vlasov presented Rentsen Sodhuu the system of Russian veterinary surveillance as well as the changes in the Rosselkhoznadzor control and surveillance activities associated with the Customs Union establishment.

During the eighth meeting of the Coordination committee on technical regulation, implementation of sanitary, veterinary and phytosanitary measures the Memorandum of understanding and cooperation in the field of quarantine of plants was signed between the FGI "All-Russian center for Quarantine of Plants" subordinate to the Rosselkhoznadzor, AO "KazAgroInnovation" and RUP "Plant Protection Plant".

The FGI "Grain Quality Assessment Center" under the auspices of Testing laboratory for safety and quality control of products (Ramenskoye) will hold a conference on "Grain Safety and Quality Control During its Storage and Export-Import Operations Within Customs Union".

During this period 13 declarations were drawn up on return of consignments subject to control and incompliant with the Customs Union requirements to European countries. In addition, 53 cases of violations were detected in total 1,187 tons of products subject to control and imported to the territory of the Customs Union from third countries.